The Longcase Clock
by ROBINSON, TOM
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Antique Collectors' Club 1989. Quarto, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering & decorattion to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, 467pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light staining to extrems, prev. ownership name & address in ink to half title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine & edges, sl chafing)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 285570
- Title
- The Longcase Clock
- Author
- ROBINSON, TOM
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Antique Collectors' Club 1989
- Keywords
- clocks antiques reference longcase grandfather illustrated mechanisms mechanics horology
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....